stop i saw a tiktok comment earlier saying smth like “in his heart dick always intended on making tim his nightwing” in the era of dick grayson becoming batman and oh my god i never considered that alternative mindset before and it’s killing me , if anyone knows the o/p pls tag because their minddd,,
but like holy shit can you imagine dick grayson slowly crumbling under the pressure of suddenly taking on the weight of the oldest holding mantle of the family, the core pillar keeping all of your tumultuous family members in balance, to put it mildly-
and as well as this you’re having to contend with parenting and raising a child no one foresaw appearing, holding views and training that clash sharply with your own and those around you to the point that it’s a growing contention amongst your youngest (? for now holy shit how many more are gonna appear out of the woodwork??!) siblings amongst the turmoil of bruce’s sudden hole in your lives and the responsibilities-
and to try to restore balance you reshuffle the dynamics that best adhere those that didn’t hold and the arguing and violence and stress and- but you forgot one singular component amongst all the constantly turning cogs because usually they’re functioning in the background, stress free (so he thought) - dick forgot to give Tim nightwing .
and we all know what happened after that
